Hello

I've got a small home server, that hosts a few web pages on a few domains -
a couple of WP and a Drupal based - all of which is using MySQL.

Recently I've run into some issues regarding the amount of free space on my
server disks. After some snooping around, I've found a bunch of MySQL-bin
files approx 3Gigs worth.

A quick investegation reveals that it is binary logfiles containing every
change to the system.

Since it isn't really a system that is a question of national security I
figure that the dump that is created every night by a cron job should be
sufficient for recreating the contents of the databases.

In short : Is it safe to just delete the binary logs ?

Many thanks

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Peter Jespersen

Peter Jespersen <flywheel (AT) illogical (DOT) dk> wrote:

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Don't delete them manually. There is a PURGE BINARY LOGS statement.
Also you should RTFM how to disable binlogging. Or have old binlogs
deleted automatically.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/...pire_logs_days
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/...nary-logs.html


XL

Axel Schwenke wrote:

Great thanks, all I wanted to know


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